Research in Motion will hold BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Apps Hackaton in nine cities in the world starting in September. Jakarta will be the only city in Asia which chosen as the venue. Other big cities chosen are in North America and Europe. This event take “by developers for developers” as its motto. RIM has not decided yet the time and venue in Jakarta event, but I predict that it might be held in November.
The focus of BBM Apps Hackaton is around the Social API implementation on BBM 6. RIM always pushes BBM Social Platform and claims to have more than 45 million users and 100 billion messages sent every month. By now, there is only one application from Indonesia has adopted BBM Social Platform. It is Menoo that is developed by Elasitas. The implementation is dealing with the users’ ability to do share their culinary activities to their friends via BBM status.
For me, it is not a surprise that Jakarta is chosen as one of the venues for this event. Besides the fast growth of the users, there are also many local talented developers in Indonesia, as regarded by RIM. In 2009, RIM held BlackBerry Developer Contest for Indonesia, while in 2010 Love Indonesia application got Super Apps award for Asia Pacific Area.
In Hackaton, the participants will get workshop and chance to interact with BlackBerry product maven. The registration fee and the prize for the participant is not mentioned yet. If you are interested in joining this event, you can find the further information about what BBM Social Platform is in this link.
We will update you with the detail information about this program soon after we have it.
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